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Normichk VOL. LXIV—No. 294 HEADOF RUSSIANDELEGATION -~ CONFERS WITH ISMET PASHA Consider Russo-Turkish Attitude Toward Future Control of the Bosphorus, the Dardanelles and the Sea of Marmora : —They Are to Endeavor to Upset International Control of the Wateways Connecting the Mediterranean and Black Seas—Allies Are a Unit in Determinatioh Not to Allow Turkey to Escape Consequences of the Aid Ren- dered Germany During the War. Causanne, Dee. 3.—(By the A. Py— M. Tchitcherin, the head of the Russian delegation and Ismet Pasha had another | fectionate. long conference today on the . Russo- | “Since their imperial master has left Turkish attitude toward future control of | them without support we must find hus- the Bosphorus, the Darcanelles and the |bands for them or they will starve, All Sea of Marmora and tomorrow morn- they .ecxpect is a modest dowry, - This ing at 11 o'clock they will initiate their ;under our law will be returned to-the struggle in the Near Eastern confere:ce husband .if he should Jesire to divoree to upset international control of the|thé woman he married.” waterways conpecting the Mediterrane- - an and Black geas. . " rON Russia and Turkey are ‘ignoring -the | KEVIEW OF SECOND WEER OF terrible part Turkey played against the NEAR EASTERN CONFERENCE allied powers in the great war and Are | —_— stouting ‘all suggestions that nationalist{ yausanne Dee. 3.—(By the A. P.)—A Turkey should pay for the havoe |, eyiew of the gecond week of the Near wrought by the sultan's forces directed | pagiern conference shows clearly that the | army; he pointed out that = their by German and Austrian leaders lacwotiscions have romched & point” ot fyone) ' was - Seickas aot ool 12l Ismet, encouraged by the ~MOSCOW |y nger; the question of capitulations, o | Greece, -but in all countries, and cit=d government, Is assuming the attitude Of gpecia) ' privileges enjoyed by foreigners | cases where they were responsible for a vietor because of the crushing defedl i, gyrkey, which was taken up yester- | military disaster. In this conmection he| recently administered to Greece. He IS guy may make or break the conference, ' alluded to the former German crown! ignoring the provisions of the Sevres g4’ tnis is so because an adverse decision . prince, which pleased™ the demands| treaty negotiated with Turkey by the on" capitpiations may so wound Turkishiamong the spectator: allies after tho great war, but never :pu ooP) oeleTtuat he 5 spectators Balletin ~UPULATION 29,685 s _TICE TWO CENTS REDUCTION OF 520,571,986 INDEFICITOF THEP. 0. DEPT Fact Announced in Annual Report of Postmaster General Work—Recommends Legislation to Increase the Inter- est Rates on Postal Savings Deposits and Postal Savings Bonds—Urges Government Ownership of Postoffice Buildings—Public Bought 14,261,948,813 Postage Stamps, 57,401,250 Special Delivery Stamps and 1,111, 124,439 Postal Cards. " RWICH, CONN., MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1922 . TEN PAGES—70 COLUMNS IReply Filed By Atty General Daugherty |To Charges Made Against Him With the House Ju- diciary Committee by Rep- resentative Keller. (By the A. P)— ttorney Gene: BRIEF TELEGRAMS A convey of ten Greek steamships sail- ed from Piraeus Saturday for Samson where they will také aboard refugees. |Prnce ndrew s | | Exiled From Greece Sentence by Military Court Also Deprives Him of His Rank—Refused to Obey Order. - Athens, Dec. 3 (By the A. P.)— Prince Andrew, brother of former King Constantine, has been sentenced by a military court to banishment, for lifs and deprivation of his rank. He will Dot suffer actual degradation, The judgment of the court finds that Princo Andrew refused to obey orders in the presence of the enemy . and moved his army comps in -another direc- tion, but considers that in view of his: lack of experience in commanding large masses of fighting troops, and the conditions in which he was placed, sn: plicatio mof the penalties provided by law would not be justifiable. of the prince closed numerous witnesses hal been examined and pleas had. been made by counsel for-the defense for clemencq. The indictment Dbrougit against him set forth that during the advance on the Sangarisus river, Andrew, commanding the Secon corps, refused to obey an order tack the enemv. Royalty mad 2 bad time during the final stages of the inquiry. The pro: cutor dwelt on the disadvantages of em- ploying princes in high positions i Ten indictments for larceny are still pending in the superior court against Charles Ponzi, in Boston. Refused admittance te the United States, because of the contract labor law, 20 New Bfunswick woodsmen have re- turned to Fredricton, N. B. Charles B. Warren. the American nm- | bassador, has left Tokio, with his twe ' sons te travel through Koria anu churia and thence to Peking. Maui- Washington, Dee. 3 Formal Daughert The proposal for a mission of French officers to America, for w the Frepeh chamber of deputies appro- priated 00,000 francs was in response to invitations from Washington. five v Repre: Innesota depariment of ju: Wresented to the committee meets tomorrow tc consider the resolution demanding Mr. Daug impeachment. Answering entative Kell public tonig the A dezen ezgs was the only loot takenm | by three men whe robbed a southbound Ontario and Western express train near | Haverstraw, N. Y., according to railroad turn cach of the ¢4 spe- detectives., bmitted by the M ghenty |and long chestnut-colored hair. All of ary | them are. very’ religious, -faithful and af- r was $60,51 The average | The twenty-third annual intermational livestock show opened in Chicago with | gor more than 10,000 head of blocded cattle | horses sheep and swine to be judged honors during the week's showing. % ed more b those charged and charged with violating ry was ren: Work in his wed | an- lasi seral own- { much housing congestion, the id, but it alfo would (Continged on Page Seven, No. Four) Smith W. Brookhart was sworn in Sat- urday as senator from Iowa, for ti | expired term of Wililam S. Kenyos resigned to accept appointment Cnited States circuit court. PRESIDENTIAL COME NOMINATIONS ; SENATE TODAY ture of Total those ot bough 14.261.948 §401.250 special d 124.439 postal Postal savi savings totalled $155,00 of deposi 000.000 now without _tangible retur ed instead in property of a ue. Government owned build:: cat, are free from government as a Washington, Dce. 5.—Confirmation of | upwards of a thousand presidential nom- inations will be the task of the senaie| on meeting tomorrow ten o'clock in | the final sitting of the Unlike the house whic business before it, the senate pected to work until close to 12 o'clock before adjourning sine die. The regu- lar session will begin at noon. Probably the only business transact- ed in either the house or senate at the initial meeting will be the routine ap- Rober L. Mack . assistant terasurer of the Holden Woolen eompany, Worces- | ter, Mass, died from tie effects of i luminating gas whiie he i home there. , he pointed | while the must pay encugh rent to enable the landlord to meet his tax biils. In the same way he asseried that whereas the govermment couid bor- row money “on practically a 4 per cent. ! basis” to build postoffices, when it leases | " U Jit “pays a rental sufficient to permit the | zpoointmen lessce 1 borrow money at 7 per cent., 2140.430.1 365 a 1 withdrawals [, same Jines as among the country's =av- | ings banks. Appointme; taxatio o On his first day as a civilian after 43 years army service, Major General Clar- ence R. Edwards, U. 8. A, retired Sat- urday considered plans to become =2 farmer. postmasters has be- as civil serviea 492 presidential by the senate and of the confirmed Rear Admiral Jol ratified, as Mustapbs Kemal Pasha ew ' tblished a rival Turkish government in Anatolla and declarcd that this treaty, | signed by the sultans representatives, was void. 3 The allied powers and states have so far in the conferenmce sresented a unified front in_their de- wrmination 'not ‘to allow Turkey to es- cape the consequences of the ald she rendered to Germany by the mere shuf- the United heir fezes and go back to Anzora. Lverybody realizes the c<xtreme deli- cacy and danger of the negotiations on | capitulations. The Turks have rejected fiing of its capital from Eurone to Asia, and the substitutioi of Kemal and An- gofa for the sultan and his parliament, and there i3, reason to believe that they will grant Turkey’s demands for all suggestions of the powers thé United States, that_the ileges ‘enjoyed by foreigners in the past shall_ be retained. mgre especially any attempt to have foreign consular courts ry -casés involying foreign residents or foreign property. Both Tsmet Pasha’and Dr. Riza Nur, pleripotentiaries from Angora, informed the corrcspondent of The Associate Press today that they would resist any including pecial priv- ! Turks may don ] ll I Andrew bore up well throughout the t his lfe, as the! charge on which he was convicted punishable according to article 207 of the Greek code, by death, The defense, however, evoked special circumstances,| and the prince found himself referred: tc_as alfogether unqualified for the po-| sition of commander of an army corps, which could only have been obtained through favoritism accorded to royaity. The prosecutor asserted that Prince Andrew - was_ unable to realize the re- sponsibilities of his position and conse-| i It was touch and go whether helj wouid escape with R. Edwards U. 8. N., retired, died at his home in Bristol, = Aithough he had been retired in 1915, he served during the World war with the Brown University naval unit. Rudolph L. Trent, a negro who was discharged as a patrolman in Boston, was sentenced to 30 days in the house of cor- rection for assault with a loaded revolv- er. Trial of ninety-three clergymen and laymen and nineteen women, who are charged with opposition to the govern.- ment’s church treasure decree, has be- pointment of a joint commi to the White House to notify the pres- session of the ident that the last congress has convened and message is awaited. Republican senators mad confirmation of at least a the nominations by voting in cus late yesterda ly the Dyer an which the democrats had filibustered for several Underwood of Alabama, the leader, was informed today cision of the republicans and o abandon complete- | ynching bill successtully days. ttce to go Other that his the posits from 2 on postal savings bonds from e possible portion of | party cau- against begn in the service more Senator | years; ceclassification of democratic of the de- in accord | for motor than legislation recommended by the s postnaster gencral included passage of | service continued 1o take the place of tha the bill pending in the house to increase | fourth class postoffices. interest rate on postal savings de-| to 3 per cent. and the rate 212 o 3 1-2 per cent.; establishment of a system of pensions for postal employes who have thirty departmental employes; a salary readjustment to per- mit full pay for overtime; authorization vehicle rural mail routes up ) and | 1,105 were of women and 933 of former in some cases as much as 10 per ceat.” sarvice men of th The constan = World war. cxtending rural delivery The rapid re- duction in postoffices in recent years ls shown by the fact that there were in the United States and its possessions on July 1, 1922, 51,947 poetoffices, compared with 924 on June 30, 1902, a decreass of al- most one-third in twenty years. During the year city delivery services were established in seventy additional postoffices, affording this advantage te 1,045.350 additional people. with promises made during the filibust- City delivery to seventy-five miles in length; mainte- ity atlempt to place Turkey on a Jower in- ::n:la)l \f-‘;."nmn&"mr:'fi?in';n-'.??l ternational standing than “smaller and | gigopeying the orders of his su:)erio} less important states, Iike Greece znul The ' prince ‘patiently listened to these! Mexico:” they would insist on complets | yrpieasant remarks and when asked at! administrative independence. roceedi Dr. Riza\ said: “We hear that nlm,“,l‘jicf‘:’ffi‘fn‘"'; e s e powers, incluling the United Stales, ar¢ | haq not, . As usual In cout-martials, thinking of substituting ‘judicial guaran- | tpe prigoner left the court before deliv- tees’ for the hateful expression ‘capitu- | of the verdict s lations’. Insofdr as foreign tribunals | Nicholas Damaskinos, displayed are concerned this Will not do; it means | oG5 28 MASCANS, Wisplayed vis the same thing under. a different “am'lroval client’s - head. Prince szndr!;rs And we object: to @ _transitory pertod | wire who was Princess Alice of Batten- whereby Turkey would bs supposed 8rad- | byre also- was grestly werried: she had ually to smancipgte herseif from the ai- | sucni ‘sicanless nights. sinte his. mreeet| c:;;:)‘;;gl"g\;n{mm;;;&s;l.aflons. - We wmtj‘ :'-;.d; .-;;ngu‘g\ ‘Athens_ only a ‘few days! The leading lluropean pawers have l':; several :im‘@,‘ D togriut hiny selves Ip. fi apa 2 it l:gr;l:m&or;z'\r‘:; 75‘ :7 ‘::;;lgn -’c::r‘;s ] 2 hx::!ru drlbe;adons on the ver-ibetween China and Japan, said it had fsnesé o keo) the tercicn o huc | Jict lasted nearly three hours, and the! had been decided to transfer the admin- e e et Ty sywmmamw m‘:m = epc::eu:: of rfienfk In“ l‘:‘:: istration of Tsing-Tao on December 10. Iwith. the Turkish, attitude. But Baron | veres wosoome 38 a relfet when i' Hayashl has -made the point that it took | fgie™ (rial interest 'Me}s!fl .nd'mh" i Jagan. two ‘decades -to’ establish a Sys- | he: werdict delivered th s arl temy. of” jurjsprudence: which satisfied the | pano OISt VRS delivered the house ofy foreign powers-and fgally induced them iy the - military element rtk:ul‘: Iy | definitely fo abolish the foreign_ tribun- | 43t H = ps {al provision. Japan has therefore urged . . e m“’] now in operation in Neglect 10 prop parcels cost the public more than $423.000 during the year. Matter sent to the dead letter office, however, deareased 16 per cent. Mails were carried by air over s dis tance of 1,727.256 miles and 45,958,928 letters were deliversd by the air mall ser- vice without a single fatality or serious accident to fliers. The one death in the entire service was that of a pilot “femry- ing” an empty plane between points. A total of 434 new rural delivery routes were organized, extending delivery to 62~ 930 families There are now 44.136 rursl routes, supplyng more than 29,700.000 in- aividuals; over a Tengili of 1 180,448 miles Parcel post packages handied totalled 44,051,083 and the postage expended om them was $5,737.29). Mail carried postage free under the franking privilege of the various govers. mental agencies reached a total of 435~ 000000 pieces, and the postmaster gen- eral estimated that had they been paid for at the ordinary rates they woald have er let it be known that the democrats would offer no further obstruction. Foremost among the nominations to be taken up is that of Pierce Butler of Minnesota, to be an associate justice of be the reason for a double shooting at| e gypreme court succeeding William R. Buffalo, N. T, in which one of the vie- | 1o SUPEoe ol Beced e g atton tims was killed and the other probably | ez, Some, PpoS i O e ased but Foostally, woumded Senators Kellogg and Nelson of Minne- sota have said they expected no freat difficulty inasmuch as the nomination received an unanimously favoralde re- port from the judiciary committee after inquiry into the objections. i Hundreds of other nominations, in- cluding a large number of postmasters and army appropriations afe expected to e approved by the senath without op- position. The nomination of Walter L. | Cohen. negro, of New Orleans, to be contrciler of customs at New mlm;, is expected to fail because of the opposi- i of th Louisiana and several other tors. leaders had planned to Sninping bill passed last week by the house, reported to the senate to- morrow but_ the democratic filibuster gun In Moscow district court. sbsolute domination of the straits and rdjacent territory, M. Tehitcherin has .declded to attend tomorrow's session himselt in spite of tailure of the inviting powers to adnut Russla fo the bessions where ail -the questions Ipvauyifg. the proposed treaty with Turkey_ are. considered. - He will against the limitation of ‘Ruzsiy’s icipation in_ the_straits problem and is epeeted to discusxs prac- Ucally all problems whicl: was the cdn- nee is i ah. effort’ to prove that eontrdl "of - the straits .canpot be dotached from the disposition of West- ern ,Thrace, and seores of econesm. Questions. s well-as financial qoestion® arising’ ffom ‘the ‘capitylations which old Russia enjoyed along with - the ~other great powers. z * Before ‘Tchitcherin ‘arrived” at. Lau- sanne the Turks were.ineclined to favor admitting warships to the . straits,- it they entered one at a iime, bu: the soviet ~delegation -stiffened -the -Turkish probletm, and Ismet is noww standing for exclusion of -all warships from .the stralts at all times, except Turkish ves- sels, and demands absolute control for the Angora gdvernment. l When asked today for an explanatiop of what the fate of the Rumanian and Bulgarian ports would be if" the Black sea fere made a Russian Jake ahd Turkey given control of its entrance, a member of the Russian delegation said that the Moscow government expected to call a conference of the .powers on nance of a guaranty fund. derived from assessments levied upon postal officials | for funds and property, to make good | losses from the fallure of such officials to properiy perform their duties, and to take the place of the present bonding system; imposition of additional postage on improperly or insufficiently addressed mail, and the extension of insurance and collect-on-delivery privileges to third class mail. Roviewing the department’s activities during the last fiscal year, Mr. Work re- ported that a reduction of $20,571,985 in the deiicit of the department had been effected by economies in administration. Notwithstanding the decrease, the de- ficit is still Jarge, the report said. and un- less revenues increase in greater ratin to expenses there is little hope of materially reducing it in view of fixed charges over which the department has no control. During the fiscal year there was an in- crease of $21,362,266 in postal receipts. but_expenditures were only $780,835 in fiilib excess of thoss of las. year. Considering |netted an additional income of $10.887.- prevented reference of the legislation to |losses of postal funds through fire, bur- | 387. committee. It is expected to be report- ed Tuesday and leaders plan to take| —mmmm e e it .up “'e.dne!d y. L n THREAT BY LEADER OF THE MASTER BAKERS' STRIKE IN Sine die adjournment tomorrow wi JIRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY FEANCE LASTED 25 HOURS A quarrel between motorists over right of way on a road is said by witnesses to The eruption of the volcano Strombeli, which began on Wednesday, ceased Fri- day. No fatalities have so far been re- ported. The entire population has mov- ed from the vicipity fcaring a renewal of the eruptions. “A semmunique issuéd i Peking un- nouncing that the Chinese commission- ers had signed the Shantung agreament Four hundred persons are homeless in Terrebonne, Que, as a resuit of a fire which’ wiped out_the entire lower part of | Terrebone, destroying more than 75 res- idences and store buildings, including 3 the town hall and the post office. e ! representatives of society present. The Turks argue that:complete admin- | istrative sovereignty 'is perhaps the most solemn article of the new Ottoman na- j tional pact. A prominent Turk said: “If ‘Americans ‘and other foreigners 1 do not like to be under the authority of | our Turkish.coiirts, let them stay away | i from Turkey: If a Turk were arrested in ; On the witness stand, Prince Andrew told: the president of ‘the court that ac- : cording to-his orders the Second armay before ‘attacking had to await instruc- tions from ‘the Third army corps waleu d‘dC 16:1 Tl’l’gfli is testified that in: i ¢ ‘olonel Sariynnis ifie t, in- \DS Vv 3 stead of attacking, the Second army| Clinton ¥. Andersen, of Chieago, whe | o0 VIOLATIONS o s The will of the late Congressman John ‘L Nolan of the Fifth California district, filed for probate by his widow, Mrs. Ella Mae Nolan, valued the estate at $1,700, ' (real estate worth $1,500 and personal not give senators and representatives mileage as no resolution proyiding for iis payment was adopted. Dublin, Dec. 3.—(By The A. P.)—A letter signed by Liam Lynch, chief of staff of the army council at genéral headquarters of the Irish republican Paris, Dec. 3 (By the A. P.).—8$be bread strike which began yesterday has coilapsed. The master bakers informed the minister of agriculture today that the | corps. replied that an attack the Black sea to nregotiate a treaty which would-neutralize that water and make navies unnecessary. Greece has ceased to be an important factor in the conference since the exe- New York he would be tried before an American court and not murmur. The same situation should exist in Turkey. The Turkish position™is weakened by the fact that complete unity of front by north was impossible owing < to the’ strong: enemy defenses whereupon the commander-in-chiei ordered the chief of Staff of the Second corps replaced. Sari-' ynnis declared -that it Andrew had car- to tne lost a hand by accident while a brake- man for the Pere Marquette railroad, was ‘awarded a jury verdict of $41,000 Friday. He is the father of eleven s children. 1STH AMENDMENT SCANDALOUS army in Dubfin, addressed to the speak- | baking of bread would be resumed to- ‘Washington, Dee. Tinkham, republican, —Representative Massachusetts, i made public today a letter to President es the parliament’s army of the treatment of prisoners. er of the provisional parliament, a tations | of the recognized rules of warfare in = - | morrow. The strike of the bakers had lasted twenty-five hours. Its collapse is attrid- uted to the energetic attitude taken by Harding commending his reported inten- tion to refer in his message to congress The wedding of Hsuan Tunmg, the 13- |y, “widespread disrespect for law as vear old deposed emperor of China, was ! sxemplified by deflance of ~the . 18th celebrated in Peking with all the pomp ! and suggesti that all | n iamendment,” fm‘l ceremonial vfb llr;verml dhzys- The s of the constitution “be enforced former emperor’s bride was the Princes | v impartially.” e snes equally and impartia “With the greatest respect,” ham wrote, “may I draw your attention “Finally,” says the letter in part “you are now pretending to try Irish repub- lican prisoners before your make-believe courts. You already have done to death five men after such mock ceremonials. You now presume to murder or trans- port soldiers who had brought Ireland :‘l‘i(o:z'puv;fi:—n You traltors surrendered | N0 (L MNCT F overnment also en- Vext to the members of your deavored to show that t'he value of bak- visional government, every member of | eries kad increased fabulously durimg the your body who voted for this resolu- [Past few years. tion, by which you pretend to thake le-| When the committee of the master gal the .murder of soldiers, is equally bakers' union visited the minister of agri. guilty. We therefore give you and each | Culture today the minister was told that member of your body due notice that,|the bakers were prepared to listen to the unless vour body recognizes the rules | appeal he made to the chamber of depu- of warfare in the future, we shall adopt | ties yesterday. The minister replied that very drastic measures to protect our |he considered it his duty to receive the forces.” bakers' committee but that he could mot A copy of the letter was sent to Mr. |discuss the situation thoroughly until Johnson, the labor trader, with a cov- | work was resumed in Paris and the sup- ering note saying: “The continued par-|ply of bread assured. the great powers has been erected against the Turks on this problem. How- ever, Russia is expected to side with her ally, Turkey. L Another capitulation difficulty sca fixing the customs tariff. The powers won't permit Turkey to increase her tarifft from 11 to 15 per cent, but the Oftoman state wants complete freedom to make its own tariff schedule. The present schedule is. practically prohibit- ive for the great bulk of British and Prench goods. It remains to be seen whethér the threat of foreign powers to experid no_capital in Turkey will induce the Turks to change their vecalcitrant at- titude. « : % In 3n altempt to give public-strength to their position the Turkish delegates have widely distributed a pamphlet writ- ten by Ahtoed Rustem Bey, former Turk- ish ambassador at Washington.in which ‘cution of Gounaris and his associates at Athens, an dit does not seem likely that the decision of the Athens govern- ment to banish Prince Andrew, rather than shoot him will improve the posi- tion of Greece at Lausanne, The Near Eastern conference is in in effect, ignoring the quarrel between Turkey and Greece and devoting itself to the breader problems whlch, arose from Turkish support of - the. - eentral powers in the great war. Turkey's ap- parent _sul lency to. Russian orders has caused much uifaverable comment amaong the allied delegations. Many of the members of the delegations. were n Russia when the Brest-Litovgx treaty was signed by ths' bolsheviki d Russia's participation in the great oh ‘the allied side was definitely ended. . Agademic arguments about absclute the government, which had indicated it intention to use army bakers to meet the crisis. The governmetn took good care to ex- plain to the public that the price of flour had not varied to any extent since May, and that hence it was fighting against ried out the order the batle of Sangari- us would probably haveé been won. He added that the prince threatened to sign if the commander-in-chief insis: ed upon his orders being execured. General Papoules.. admitted that _th: reason the prince was mnot dismissed; king” his command was that he was the| A chase for » convict who escaped |t the fact that, whereas the 15| Selnothee: 3 from the state prison in Thomaston, Me., | amendment is permissive in its authori- General Trivilas, {or. tite: dafense, vig-|on July 14, which had carried the pur- |zation to congress to pass legislation to orously supported Andr_ews action. . Yle'suit through the far reaches of Canada, ienforce it, the second section of the 14th asserted that Pdpouleg orders - were! terminated in Breckenridge, Minn, with |amendment which commands congress practically- -contradietory, and ‘denied|the arrest of James Delle. to reduce representation in proportion to that the accused had -ever .refused to . disfranchisement is mandatory and pre- carty: out. prders, Major Skilakaki made| . Alien Hollis of Comcord, N, H., brother | scriptive, and is now scandalously and a. similar statement, adding-that Princelof former United States Senator Henry : completely unenforced and nullified.” Andrew was a splendid disciplinarian: |'F. Hollls, stated that the former senator | Mr. Tinkham. asserted that “with fla- i ; Counsel Damaskinos - begged ~ the had been appointed head of the.Intérna- |grant and widespread disfranchisement judges “as good soldiers”. to adjudge tional bank of Bulgaria, with headquart- | established by indisputable e¥idence now the accused as théy would any other|ers in Sofia. before congress and by common knowl- Sigiec. edge and the second section of the 14th Mr. Tink- The -prince read - his defence, which frecdom of the stralts under Turkish control ‘are lost on the allied represent- atives who cannot’ forget the terrible tampaign at Gallipoli. g 5 ATTITUDE OF UNITED STATES ON THE DARDANELLES QUESTION — Lauvsanne, Dec. 3 (By the A. P.).—Ind!- sitions are that the American delegates will confine their activities in the Darda- nelles question to insisting that ihe straits be open in times of peace to all American ::w, Whether merchant vessels of war- ips. The Unitéd States, it is asserted; will probably refuse to be drawn into taking sides on the question of the Turkish right to fortify the stralts, merely asking for L open waterway between the Mediterra- wean and the Black seas. FINDING HUSBANDS FOR 150 TURKISH HABEM INMATES «Constantinople, Dec. 3.~~(By the A. P.)—Rafet Pasha Is trying to find hus- bands for 150, members of the former aul- tan’s. harem. ' The women range in.age from 17 to .35 ycars. All of them ufe penniless. Rafet also is anxious to solve the fato o¢ the former monarch’s numerous prog- eny, as well ag that of twenty princes and princesses of the royal, blool. Since tiie sultan’s flight the nationalist govern- ment has been supporting these women, in. addition to one hundred eunuchs and many sorvants. The government now has decided that these paople must-shift tor themselves. 5 Ladles of ihe harem .who are able. to fifid husbands will be permitted to remain in Constantinople, but the remainder of them will be =ent to theit homes in the interfor. Most of the women Circas- sians and are described | ‘as - “strikingl: tive,” 2 Vi “4t ought not to be' difficult to find husbards op hélpmates for thess women,' said s patdice functionary tédey. ¥ ull fvete selected for their béauty, youth e gitls 1o’ the. sulian he warns the world that modern Turkey wiil ‘never ~submit to having foreigners i He pleaded 'extenuating ecincumstances, disregard Turkish law while living ‘on Turkish soil. 'He wonders whether Eng- land and the United States ‘“whose eth- ical pride is strengthened by religious prejudice . will ever permit Turkey to enter the sacred circle of the occident om a footing of fraternal equality.” INDULGENCE IN INTOXICANTS IS FORBIDDEN BY KEMALISTS Constantinople, Dec. 3 (By the A.'P.). —Orders were issued by the Kemaligts today forbidding all employes of the gov- ernment to indulge in alcoholic drinks on pain of dismissal and the infliction of hirty lashes, Policemen and soldiers found drinking will'be degraded. JTEN PERSONS INJURED IN AUTO ACCIDENT IN HARTFORD Hartford Dec. 3.—Ten ‘persons .were injured late this afternoon as the resuit of collision between a fire truck andsa small ‘sedan in the business district. The injured are Mr. and Mrs. Dwight E. Gray, Mr. and Mrs. Karl. Hamilton and their two years wold sop, Andrew, of Broadbook; Miss ‘Elsie Anderson, -of East Hartford, all occupants of the sedan and Firemen John McCarthy, Lawrence Tempie, Dennls J. McCrosser and Joséph Rocco. % Gray and: Miss Hamilon are bellevedy to be suffering-from . fractured . skulls while all .the others except MoCrossen and Rocco are in the Hartford hospital suftering from lacerations of the face and . The ‘aceident. occurred when'the " driver of /the 'sedan altemptéd to pass-ahead af the | truck which was traveling ap- proximately 40 miles an - hour. 03 The ‘sédan wds spun arounr by.the force of the impact and was: démolished. The fire. fruck Was brought = to.a. stop ‘When it strucka‘tree.. - .- 7 In. Palmyra, Syria,’ theré s a ocates - and obviously had been prepared for him. contending that it was not fair to treat a prince. the same as a general,"because | he was only a figurehead and occupied | his' position' as chief ‘of an army corps Roor Admiral Wiiam C. Cols and his Staff were recetved in Sautiago, Chile, by President Allessandri who expfessed to { the: American-commander the deep appre- ciation of the Chilean people for the time- 1y -ald -extended o the "suffered in the earthquake area. through the fact that he was a brother A 5 of the king. \ Prince Andrew Golag to Englasd. London, Dec. 3. of Greece, wi land, accompanied by Princess Alice. Aboard a British Battleship. Athens, Den '3 (By the A. P, An Prince drew and his wife, Princess Alice, em- barked at Phaleron this afterncon aboard A dispatch to the Timeés from Athens says Prince Andrew leave shortly for Eng- A fine of $15 and a jall semtemes of fifteen hours was imposed on Mrs. Wal- ter P. Stamp for contempt of court as a result- of her- attempt - to address “in Louisville, Ky., the jury hearing the case of her former husband, charged with ‘murder. ¥ The headless skeleton of a man in a kneeling” positions was found by three hunters in the woods near. Riga, fourteen miles from Atlantic City. The skeleton | was’ found against-a tree with .a thick a British warship. It is understood they |[9P¢ dangling from one of the tree's will-be taken to England, ATHENS_DENIES OUTBREAK OF REVOLT IN WESTEEN THEACE ‘Athens Dec. 3.—A semi-official denial " 0 revolutionary outbreak - in - Patras ‘and Missolonghi, in island - of of reports of ' a_counter ‘western - Thrace,” and- on “the Corfu, ‘has been issued. that public order is nowhere disturbed. Local newspapers publish reperts from ple that the Turkish author- itles in. Thrace have arrested many Mus- i former Greek ational assembly, Who will be charged Constanti sulmen. deputies ' of the ‘Wwith - high ‘treason., 4 o OBITUARY s Rebert J. Conk Pittsburgh, Dec..3.—Robert J..Cook, known “-traveler, . lawyer ' and . bome - in Fayett: today. of the Yale and’ in later. . oarsmen. Wwag_sefit: to widely journalist, died” at_his e near :Belle * Vernon crew ~from 1873, “to 1876 : le-a. student at Yale,:he, nd.to study British " .of+his ideas It.is declared - Both ‘Mrs. Alice Dudgeon. and her daughter, Mrs. Meda Hodell, stand con- the former in connection with the death of Romie Hodell, her son- in law, and the. Jatter in connection with the death of David Hodell, her father-in-law. More than .a thopsand of them,Negroes, are homeless in- ‘New- burg, N. C. and property ' valued at riearly:-$2,000,000, including a number of ‘business structures,- was laid waste as the resuit/of a fire which swept through twéntyblocks of the city. Bartholomew Wilhelm Frank Ssajbel, the Polish zallor, who, according ‘to the police, said he threw 'a piece of iron 5 through a bank .window on = Middle amendment uhenforced, the very tenure ticipation of your party in the proceed- of the office you hold and the tion of the lower house of tainted with unconstitutionalit Mr. Tinkham suggested that the pres- ident call attention of congress to Tepresenta- congress is |construed by us only as its M. Cheron, the minister of agricuiture, ings of this illegal -parliament can be|added that he always had favored a siidi international co-operating with the enemy forces ir|would fluctuate with that of flour. the movement of a number of our sol- diers, a great proportion of whom are | out, ing scale, by which the price of twead Th bakees then agreed to sbandon the ook~ victed in’ White Cloud, Mich., of murder, | mest | the 1"prceenl unconstitutional composition.” RESGLTS OF ELECTION OF 32 /AMERICAN RHODES SCHOLAES Swarthmore, Pa., Dec. 3.—The results of the annual election of American Rhodes scholars to the University of Oxford, held yesterday in 32 states, were announced today by President Frank Aydeliote, of Swarthmore col- lege,” American secretary to. the Rhodes Trustees. Thirty-two Rhodes scholars are ap- pointed from the United States each year. A scholarship in tenable for three years and carpies with it a stipend of pounds sterling 350 a year. The selec- tion is made on the threefold’ basis of (1) character and personality; (2) scholastic ability, and (3) physical vig- or whether shown by participation in outdoor sports or in other ways. For. the 32 appointments made yester- day there were 344 candidates. Those clected, subject to the ratification -of Rhodes trustees, together Wwth the institution from which they are accres ited and their pi nt address include Connecticut—F. Matthiesson, Yale, Tarrytown, N. Y. Massachusetts—H. P. Perkins, Will- iams college, Williamstown, Mass. New Hampshire—T. Sanderson, Dart- mouth college, Campridge, Mass. Rhode Island—J. A. Wilson, university, Providence, R. I. Vermont—G. V. Kidder, University of Vermont, University of Vermont, Burl- Brown o ington, Vt. 3 S S S T MME. SCHUMANN HEINK * IS ILL WITH PNEUMOXIA | Garden City, N. Y., Schumann Heink. ‘noted nnlar.l;u Te- pofted ‘today to be seriously with ja at her home here, necessitat- ng’ eancellation lof “her western concert tour. planned for this month. A New York | head-on , and the five, hundred bakers who had speeded to Paris' from various army cen- ters to bake bread had made their jor- ney for nothing. drawn from the ranks of labor.” Mr. Johnson declimed absolutely to say_anything with reference to the let- ter today All the members of the pro- visional government and their supporters are taking precautions against possi- ble attack. AUTO CRASHED INTO A 1 Dublin, Dfih:;—g{m'r;e A P.)—The S EPO r epul today com- TROLLEY CAR IN BRIDGEFORT| ins a message from Eamonn De Va- nee lera, replying to an article printed in D Ta_|the Manchester Guardian, which aserted that the Irish people had accepted the Irish treaty. “The Irish electorate,” says the De Valera message, “did not decide for the Free State last December, and has never. decided for it; but it has unequivs The dead are: Andrew Kascsac, of * 1ol ocally decided for and ratified the ro- Stamford and his nephew, Edward To-|JL% TEGC TO0 TR0 T . masko, five years oid. Both died in the|; oinvoinea jis cHoice Bridgeport _hospital from skull fractures|y.. s of t:r:ihle suffering. “I repeat my challenge: Will the Eng- shortly aftet they had been admitted. government withdraw Ws threat of DE VALERA REPLIES TO THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN Bridgeport, Dec. of them a five-year-old boy, were fa- tally injured and a third, the boy's fa- ther, was seriously injured here fo- night, when an automobile crashed into a Pridgeport trolley car on Barnum avenue. Michael Tomasko, also of Stamford, fa-|jjgn ther of the dead boy, was taken t0 tho|war ‘and pledge itself to abide by the same hospitial suffering from a =kull|result of the free plebiscite the Irish. fracture, Little hope for his recovery|people have taken to decide between-a is held. republic and the proposed Free State. Police reported that the accident oo “Irish - republicans have not curred when Kascsac, who was driving|and will not oppose in arms, any decls the automobile, attemipted to pass a liue |gion so reached, and we pledge ourselves’ of machines on the road to Stratford,[to the ‘world not to do so. Will your No arrests were{mot, why not? ~ : “That is the test by which all can _— g judge whether there is or is not English IRISH FREE STATE GOVERNMENT |dictatiom, and whether the Irish TO; ORGANIZE TUESDAY |are réally free to decide as they please.” : ——eiy 3 Dublin, Dee. 3-—(By The A. F)—The | RESIGNATION OF FORTCGUESE t i <! . GOVERNMENT NOT ACCEPYED.